Surrender It

So there's all different kinds of baggage.

There's just the stress of everyday life, the worries that are on your shoulders about what you've gotta do and what you've gotta get done and financial pressures and all of that, that's baggage.

There's trauma that you've experienced.

Things that have happened to you that just hurt and cut deeply.

There's people who've betrayed you.

There's all of those things you've dealt with that that's baggage.

But there's also the baggage I want to talk about today is the baggage of things we have done or left undone.

Mistakes that we've made that continue to just, we just can't seem to get rid of them.

We just can't let them go.

You know, for me, sometimes they show up like voices in your head.

They're voices that say, you know, you're never gonna get that promotion.

You blew your last job.

Or why do you think you can have a healthy relationship? You've messed up every relationship you've ever had.

They just play in your head, you know? Somebody maybe has said something to you, and you can't seem to let it go, and it becomes just a reminder of your mistake, and it eats its way into you, and you can't seem to shake it.

I have to say, for me, it tends to show up more like a snapshot, a little picture.

of sort of a mistake I've made or something I've said for which I'm just really ashamed, and I can remember the action or remember saying it, and it's almost like a little video that plays in my mind, and it's just

like, oh, there it is again.

And it comes when I'm humming along, doing really well, and I think I'm on top of the world.

I know I'm doing well at work.

I'm doing well at home.

My diet's well, and I'm working out, and everything's going well.

And then, boom, there it is again.

And I'm like, who do you think you are? There it is.

But sometimes it happens when I've had a real setback.

And then I think to myself, well, of course you had a setback.